Category: Blogs

162 million people saw Wikipedia anti SOPA message

After a 24 hour blackout in protest of SOPA, Wikipedia released the following press release. More than 162 million people saw our message asking if you could imagine a world without free knowledge. You said no. You shut down Congress’s switchboards. You melted their servers. From all around the world your messages dominated social media and [...]

Thursday January 19th, 2012 in Blogs, Social Network | No Comments »

Reddit and Wikipedia will go dark in SOPA protest

Social news site Reddit and massive online encyclopedia Wikipedia will black out its site on January 18 to protest the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA bill that is currently working its way through the U.S. House of Representatives. Many other sites are taking a stand with the SOPA movement by blacking out their web [...]

Tuesday January 17th, 2012 in Blogs, Social Network | No Comments »

WordPress 3.3 Beta 3 Released

WordPress Testers, Beta 3 of 3.3 is now available! You know the drill: use a test install, see what you can break, and report any bugs you find. There have been 200 commits since Beta 2, but at this point, betas are not adding new features — it’s all about fixing bugs, making things a [...]

Thursday November 17th, 2011 in Beta, Blogs, WordPress | No Comments »

Who To Follow on Twitter?

Twitter has a powerful new feature to help you find people related to your topic, niche, area or whatever you want to call it. Its named “Suggestions for You”. The algorithms in this feature suggest people you don’t currently follow that you may find interesting. The suggestions are based on several factors, including people you follow and [...]

Tuesday August 3rd, 2010 in Blogs, Updates | No Comments »

Twitter stats from 2007 to 2010

The following graph shows how Twitter has grown over the past three years in terms of number of tweets per day. Twitter users were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By year 2008, that number was 300,000 per day, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last [...]

Friday February 26th, 2010 in Blogs, Search Engines | No Comments »

Blog deep linked content

Pagination is another known indexing problem that most Blogs, Forums and article sites will face. If you have many articles on your blog ( you should actually have as many articles as you can) and a lot of content, you can face some duplication issues when those articles get indexed. When you create a new article, [...]

Tuesday January 5th, 2010 in Blogs, Search Engines, WordPress | No Comments »

Avoiding duplicate content

The first rule is simple: don’t copy content from other blogs. It is unethical and Google penalizes duplicate content. Although it will not ban your site from its results forever, Google will send the guilty entry to the supplemental results. Once you are there, it is difficult to come out. The whole purpose of SEO [...]

Tuesday December 1st, 2009 in Blogs, Search Engines, Seo | No Comments »

Backup Your Blog Database Regularly

It is strongly recommended that you backup your WordPress database at regular intervals and before an upgrade. Creating backups of your blog is very easy. You can do it directly from your WordPress Dashboard. You know you should do it regularly, but usually other activities get in the middle and you just forget about it. The [...]

Tuesday November 24th, 2009 in Blogs, Security, WordPress | No Comments »

How do Search Engines find you?

The most common way that search engine robots find and spider a Blog is by following hyperlinks from other sites. In search engine terminology, these sites are known as “found pages”. Some search engines also have a “submit URL” form, where you can suggest that they add your Blog to their index. Typically, you just give the [...]

Thursday November 19th, 2009 in Blogs, Search Engines, Seo, Tandil Theme, WordPress | 1 Comment »

Keep your Blog search engine friendly

When you tweak your Blog, there are some basic rules that apply to designing your pages to be “search engine friendly”. Keep these rules in mind as you build your site, or you could be in for a lot of headaches and problems. All these rules have to do with creating a Blog that search [...]

Thursday November 5th, 2009 in Blogs, Search Engines, Seo | 1 Comment »